Eva Dahr

Eva Frederikke Dahr
Born(1958-10-30)30 October 1958
Oslo, Norway
Died12 May 2019(2019-05-12) (aged 60)
Occupations
  • Film director
  • playwright
  • film producer
Known forShort films

Eva Frederikke Dahr (30 October 1958 – 12 May 2019) was a Norwegian film director, playwright, and film producer. She studied at Volda University College and the Bela Balaz studio in Budapest, Hungary.[citation needed]

Dahr was a prolific director of short films. She was the conceptual director of the TV drama Himmelblå (2008–10)[1] and also directed the film The Orange Girl, a 2009 adaptation of the 2003 Jostein Gaarder novel Appelsinpiken. Together with her sister, actress Juni Dahr, she made two short films, Dolce Vita (1989) and Troll (1991).[2]

The director won many Norwegian and international awards, including an Amanda Award and a Gullstolen at the Kortfilmfestivalen i Grimstad, for the short film En mann (1997).

Dahr died in 2019 at age 60, following a long illness.[3]

  1. ^ "Himmelblå-regissører" [Himmelblå Directors]. nrk.no (in Norwegian). 26 August 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Cross-Boarding Norwegian Film Directors". dailyscandinavian.com. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  3. ^ Death announcement, Aftenposten 14 May 2019, p. 53